Allanw

People keep saying that. NZ$40 for BMW Scanner 1.4.0 I got this one and INPA etc is pretty easy to get for about NZ$50. If you car is pre-OBDII, you'll need an adpater cable too though, about NZ$10

Busted!

There you go, find the fault and get some from Brent. A Faulty sensor won't always bring up a code. it may just "read" the area behind the car wrong.

What happened to the "Bmw z3 mspec." you used to have???

You'd think... but when you are dealing with a tard, anything can happen! They tell us they know nothing about BMWs, and then question peoples answers and posts...... Must be a member who's made an extra login and is totally taking the piss. There's TOO much tard to be real. It's like dealing with Trade Me...

BMW Scanner 1.4.0, NavCoder or INPA will help diagnose which it is - they show the distance each sensor is recording and of course, which one is registerinng with nothing there. You can give the sensors a really good spray with WD-40 and see if they are any better too. Sensors are cheap on EBAY, but also a LOT cheaper if you buy them from a landrover agent, instead of BMW agent in the UK :-) You just have to get the same type. They are used in a whle bunch of brands of car.

Haha... Dunno about the radio... but these user names are going to be confusing Allan will be along soon too

A pair of those from that design911 place is 502.78 pounds - that under NZ$990. Tire Rack works out to about NZ$1145. The design911 place even has a few tires that are real premium brands, that work out to be only a bit more than an "average" brand costs here!

But is it???? VIN says no... I'd walk from anything with a dodgy history like that.

They're about the same weight-wise

I watched that too. Stupid cheap really, for such an awesome car. Most people just see them as too old and too hungry I guess.

Doesn't really look TOO damaged...

it is broken just now though: Decoder Thread

Was working this afternoon. I must have broken it.

You need to drive a Camry. Ugh!

That is one nasty E39! Do you think it's well maintained??? I like the ad for this E34: Hamish Gordon-Turner

Don't know them, but the '98 is really a 523i - Japan had them badged as 525i's though - not quite the same grunt as the M54 2.5 in the later one (There is about 16 KW difference, and the M54 has awesome lower torque with the vanos seals done). That later/NZ one has the folding rare seats, which is VERY rare on imports, though the import has a better radio - no leather but. The earlier one has been rereged though, and says it's NZ new on carjam, which it isn't. The history would concern me, and may account for it's "low" milage. I was bored. Can you tell?

A lot of 4 cylinders sound.... bad! I've yet to hear a driftboy get an SR20 sounding that good. That sounds awesome! You sort your car out Bruce, and I'll drive it back and forth so you can listen to it

Yours does sound very similar to our M54 525i. We always use 95. they are not desinged for 91 at all (95 is marginal too). We don't get great milage, as it's generally either in town, or the drive home. The drive home has 4kms of country road, but it's very hilly and up down, and lots of bends. There is no cruising, though the manual trans must help a little. The traffic is a bit easier here too. It also depends if you are using the OBC figures, or real figures too. The OBC tends to vary car to car, but a lot report them being rather optimistic. Ours is very accurate - seems to be within about 0.2 L/100kms compared to the actuals I get on Fuelly.

If they were only charging GST, yes. Some stuff has duty too, and the % varies, depending on the goods.

Was his wife telling him off on the corners? Liking the noise

^^^ This. It 's not based on the $$$ value, it's based on the value of the duty/GST charges. "Once the threshold of $60 of duty and/or GST payable is reached, then an import entry transaction fee (IETF) of NZ$38.07 (GST inclusive) is also payable. This includes the Ministry for Primary Industries biosecurity system entry levy of $12.77 (GST inclusive)" I have found, if it comes in via post rather than courier etc, it's more likely to get missed. Most of the big international freight companies have their own customs brokers, so it's in their best interest to charge what they can :-)

A lot of the Model A guys swear by white vinegar mixed anywhere from 1:4 with water, up to 1:1 with water. Of course the Model A is just a cast iron block, and a brass radiator.... there's nothing complex in there! The vinegar is quite gentle really, and is easy to flush out (just flush it a number of times though) and it's very cheap - you can flush when the coolant looks grubby, and do it again. Some of them left it in for a month before flushing. Because a lot of Model A's were Run with straight water in the blocks, there is quite a lot of rust in there - we got 1/2 a cup out of just out radiator, getting it rodded out. The guys who used the vinegar got rust coloured goo out! I've also used the same trick on some laser cut steel brackets that started to rust, and straight white vinegar cleaned them up in about 12 hours. With all the thin aluminium parts in the BMW, I'd be more careful. I wouldn't think the vinegar was any worse than a radiator flush though (lots of which don't work anyway!).

Shhh... could still happen!

Dunno about techs down there, but make sure the rattle isn't the DISA valve too - they are dangerous to your engine if it falls apart. It's screwed into the intake plenum, directly above the throttle body. Listen for rattle there, or carefully take it out and see if the flap is coming loose and rattling. It it comes apart, there is a metal pin that can lunch the engine. It takes a while to get that bad, but very worth checking! You can new ones, or you can get aftermarket uprated ones.